Stylesight traveled to Basel this weekend and attended the inspiring Scope Basel International Contemporary Art Show in Switzerland.
Scope Art Show presented its seventh Basel edition alongside Art Basel, and this year was held at a new location: in a 4000 m2 pavilion in the Klybeckqual area on the river Rhine.
Featuring over 75 international exhibitors with pioneering work across multiple
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This summer, Swedish ultra-hip fashion brand COS will host a series of talks in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery.
A temporary pavilion designed by internationally renowned Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto will be hosting the series of events, which include film screenings, discussions and performances. In addition, a clothing collection inspired by the pavilion is being launched alongside the Park Nights series,
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If you're looking for a little out-of-the-ordinary inspiration this weekend, a trip to the Chelsea area of New York may prove promising. With three unique exhibitions all within a block of each other, it's time to bring out that old sketchbook and head to some galleries.
A selection from Neue Welt at Andrea Rosen Gallery
Pages from FESPA Digital/ FRUIT LOGISTICA by Wolfgang
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Every year, LE BOOK- the international reference for fashion, photography, illustration, design and production- comes to life with series of invitation-only events for creative industry professionals called CONNECTIONS.
Held in London, Paris and New York, the events are conceived as trade shows for the creative community, featuring thousands of artists, portfolios and creative agencies wanting to connect with art directors, art buyers, marketing and communication executives,
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Merging the digital and natural worlds, MIT Media Lab’s latest project uses robotics and silkworms to create an enormous Silk Pavilion.
The recently unveiled project investigates the interplay of nature and man-made technology to radically transform architectural designs and objects. Researchers analyzed the ways silk worms build cocoons, and used motion-tracking to create a digital model that could mimic the silkworms.
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London-based design studio Aberrant Architecture has unveiled a mobile roaming market as their latest quirky project.
Inspired by sixteenth century market structures and Lambeth’s connections to mystics and fortune-tellers, the bright blue mobile stall acts not only as a signpost but it serves as a local information point for passers-by.
Located at one of London's oldest markets, Lower Marsh Market in Waterloo,
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British, Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller has opened the British pavilion for the Venice Biennale 2013.
Entitled "English Magic", Deller's exhibition is a critical exploration into British identity, the industrial revolution and popular culture.
A dramatic mural of St. Helier (the capital of Jersey) on fire remarks on a secretive tax-haven banking culture, while a provocative piece by the Victorian painter William
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The BMW Guggenheim Lab has launched 100 Urban Trends - three glossaries comprising ideas for future urban planning.
Identified during a series of laboratory events and workshops in New York, Berlin and Mumbai, the resource sums up the most talked-about urban trends from the Lab’s global stops. Examples include Glocalism, the merging of local and global forces, Happy City, the cultivation
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One of the original immersive dining restaurants in New York, Monkey Town returns to the Chelsea area of the city this summer.
Held at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, this multi-sensory food experience will envelop guests in a floating cube of gargantuan-sized cinema screens and sound, while they feast on a menu of pork-stuffed squid, pickled vegetables and Vietnamese coffee-cream pie.
"Anyone
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This weekend, Stylesight had the privilege of visiting the newly re-opened NoordBrabants Museum in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, where the beautiful Co-evolution exhibition celebrates the life and work partnership of design duo Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk.
Featuring 100 design pieces from both designers, it’s a stunning overview of their past twelve years. Graduates of the celebrated Dutch Design Academy
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As part of Clerkenwell Design Week, Zaha Hadid’s Design Gallery in East London has opened its doors to the public.
The new showroom on Goswell Road in East London showcases select pieces from legendary architect Zaha Hadid’s extensive archive, and is also hosting several events during the festival.
Futuristic furniture and innovative designs are shown across two floors; for this week only,
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While covering the vibrant Clerkenwell Design Week, Stylesight attended a very inspiring talk at the Vitra showroom, where iconic product designer Erwan Bouroullec and Icon Magazine Editor Chris Turner discussed the ways design is influencing the changing nature of the workspace.
"One should not forget that office environments are changing and that the furniture will outlast many office concepts. This means
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Danish-based beer brewery, Carlsberg is working alongside the Nordic Food Lab in Copenhagen to create a series of beers that could accompany certain ingredients and dish flavors.
The collaboration will see a total of 3 beers created for Jacobsen, Carlsberg’s premium range of specialty beers.
Like its work for sister restaurant Noma, the experimental food laboratory will source and utilize natural ingredients
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Celebrating a centenary of gardening magnificence, the world-renowned RHS Chelsea Flower Show opens today in London.
Each year, this annual spectacle attracts thousands of visitors to the grounds of London’s Royal Hospital in Chelsea. Flower enthusiasts and green-fingered gardeners from around the world gather to see the latest in horticultural design, as well as new plant varieties, botanical color trends and
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Digital Shoreditch - the annual festival celebrating the creative, technical and entrepreneurial spirit of East London’s Tech City launches today in Shoreditch.
The most talented digital and technical creatives are coming together to enjoy over 500 sessions, 20+ interactive rooms, networking parties and dinners during the eleven day festival.
Themed days include What Tech City?, Behavioural Design and Tomorrow’s World, while The
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